Personal Opinion
Teleportation would be the end the world
I’ve been thinking about this in no particular context really. My mind just wanders onto these topics on its own sometimes… When travelling to and from places, many people only really care about where they start and end up –…
Small things I learned about America from New York
I’m just back from honeymoon in New York, and to be honest I’m glad to be back. It wasn’t a bad experience, just a tiring one, and we saw most of what we wanted to anyway so by the end…
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KDP Select or not?
I’ve been looking at my sales figures and am seriously considering enrolling in KDP select. The only thing that has been putting me off to date is the exclusivity requirement, which means I’d have to pull my books off Smashwords…
Featured on Bittorrent Bundles front page
Yep, I signed up to their beta program a few weeks back, finally got round to creating and making public my bundle last week, and just yesterday mine and nine others popped up on the front page. In the bundle…
Too much TV!
Why does all the good TV get squeezed into the Autumn/Winter seasons? I guess they think everyone is inside keeping warm and out of the dark nights, but it’s not like we suddenly have less to do in the evenings!…
Piracy and Loss
I’ve talked about piracy before but there are two recent articles that have struck a chord with me: – Tommy Refenes from Team Meat posted in IndieGames.com (via Gamasutra) his own thoughts about piracy, DRM and sales. If I had…
Indie games are all the same?
Just a quick post to say I am still alive! Been busy with my daytime work and writing my novel and have neglected this blog unfortunately. Thankfully other people have been keeping theirs more up to date, so here is…
I’ve just come back from the IndieCity*
Recently, Blitz Games launched IndieCity, a publishing service for independently developed games. Having heard how difficult and random it is to get your games on Steam I thought I’d take a look at what they had on offer. Thoughts on…
UDK Royalty limit increased!
Apparently Epic have revised upwards the minimum number of sales a title must make before you start paying them royalties. Was $5000, now it’s $50,000. Which means my previous post about UDK is somewhat redundant in terms of the royalties…
Weapon of choice
I’ve decided which engine/editor I’m going to use to make my first games. I’s called Construct, a free open-source 2D game creator and it’s by the guys at Scirra. I compared it with GameMaker 8 from YoYoGames, a very similar…